2017/10/16
Background
- I started working with Komi language in 2011
- After my MA in University of Helsinki in 2013 I worked in Germany and now in Paris
- Some work in Germany not related to my PhD
- In 2014–2016 there was a project working with one Komi dialect
- For 2017–2019 we got a continuation project
My dissertation
- Topic of my PhD is variation in Komi dialects
- Relates to language contact, partly sociolinguistically motivated
- Deliminated by …
- … what we can say with existing data
- … what kind of annotations we can realistically add
- … which processes can be automatized with sufficient quality
- … etc
Talk's structure
- What's Komi language?
- Outcome of IKDP project
- Plans for the IKDP2 project
- Work done in Paris
- Current state of my PhD (vague deadline is in 2019)
- Russian influence in Komi
- Phonetic changes
- Morphosyntactic changes
- Better analysis of syntactic structures should follow
Komi language
- Uralic language
- Three varieties: Komi-Zyrian, Komi-Permyak, Komi-Jazva
- Closely related to Udmurt, more distantly to Finnish, Hungarian etc.
- Around 300,000 speakers, everyone bilingual in Russian
- Spoken by children in several regions
- Language shift in the cities fast
Dialects
- Historical expansion from south to north
- Around 10-14 varieties, each splitting to few subvarieties
- Areal spread related to the river systems
- Written language based to central Syktyvkar dialect
- Often exhibits dialectal features
- Komi-Zyrian and Komi-Permyak mutually intelligible
- Official support of Komi-Zyrian much wider than Komi-Permyak's
- Komi-Jazva under-researched and seriously endangered, some materials exist in Russian institutions in Perm and Syktyvkar
IKDP
- The project aimed to produce generally useful dataset from Iźva dialect
- Not built with individual research question in mind
- Tries to be areally and demographically (little bit) balanced
- Fieldwork in four locations, covering most of the areas except Siberia
- Results in almost 300,000 transcribed words
- Lots of focus in metadata and systematizing old data
M.A. Castrén's notes
Red Pechora newspaper
Eric Vászolyi's collections
IKDP data
